Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

Please stop referring to domestic terrorists, seditionists as "rioters."

Via NBC's Daniel Barnes:

Convicted #January6th rioter and former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, Derrick Evans, is exploring a run for #Congress. "Right now, my eyes are on Capitol Hill," Evans says in his announcement.

Twitter is NOT the public square.

It literally exists on a server farm owned by Elon.

If he wants, he can literally pull the plug on Twitter.

No one should base their online life on that thing. Or anything owned by Meta, for that matter.

I've said this previously in a reply, but it deserves its own thread 🧵

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

Musk’s Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing - Brain-implant company accused of causing needless suffering and deaths amid pressure from CEOElon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing... #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/neuralink-animal-testing-elon-musk-investigation

HANNITY: If the hecklers are prevented from taunting the players at bat, how can we truly claim the final score is valid

CARLSON: If the Woke Mob can come for baseball, it will come for us all

WATTERS: The commissioner says “NAY Batta-Batta”, but I say “YAY Batta-Batta!”

So it appears that Congress may have decided to include the incredibly dangerous JCPA in the must pass NDAA today. The JCPA is effectively a "link tax" that will force internet companies to pay cash to private equity firms who are buying up newspapers and firing most of the staff.

It's a horrible bill for so many reasons. Even the Copyright Office says it's not useful or needed.

@scottjshapiro I strongly oppose Trump’s suggestion to TERMINATE the Constitution but will vote for him because I'm very afraid of woke liberals.

NYT: We’re here with GOP Congressman Reginald Swinefarmer to ask how he feels about Trump saying the Constitution should be suspended

SWINEFARMER: (chuckles) Oh, you can’t take anything he says too seriously

NYT: So will you support him again

SWINEFARMER: Yes, without question

New social media site. (Cartoon for @newscientist ) #twitter

BTW, there are systematic injustices in American society that should be addressed

Republicans are against being "woke"

But what does "woke" mean?

Ryan Newman, Ron DeSantis’ General Counsel, defined it in court last week.

Woke is "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them," Newman says.

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I'm noticing a lot of "I'm bored of Mastodon, I'm going back to #Twitter" posts.

In case they are genuine, here's what I've found works:

⚫ try to post content, not complaints. People want to engage with you, not your gripes

⚫ try to learn. If you're putting in an effort to be part of the community, the community will welcome you

⚫ Try to avoid posting links to tweets, definitely don't cross-post. People want Mastodon content

⚫ Reply! Reply! Reply! Everyone wants to know someone's reading and considering their content, even you

⚫ Don't lurk. Many of us check for a filled out profile, avatars, and posts, before we follow someone back

⚫ Chill. It's a big new world that doesn't serve everything up to you

⚫ Avoid the trap of rebuilding Twitter here

Feel free to link this post to people struggling with Mastodon. It's what I've found works, and may not work for everyone

I'll try not to yell.
The price of gasoline has dropped $2 a gallon in California since the election.
Don't try to tell me the oil companies and Saudis weren't trying to swing the election to Republicans and politicians holding up action on #climatechange.
Criminal.
#TaxOil

Biden campaign: “Hey, could you delete a few tweets that are just hacked dick pics of the candidate’s son?”
Twitter: “Ew. Yeah.”
Trump: “This is the proof I need to end American democracy and become president for life.”

Literally no Democrat cares if Hunter Biden is prosecuted if he committed crimes. He's not elected—we're not a cult.

We just call it *absurd* that MAGAs—who let Kushner & Ivanka make $640M while "government employees" and get $2B after leaving the White House, under wildly suspicious means from a murderous dictator—now pretend to care about alleged Biden nepotism.

We see your shameless, dangerous hypocrisy.

@lauren Remember the remarkably similar (unsolved) attempted gunshot attack on a California substation a few years ago?

Authorities say substation damage that has blacked out 40K in North Carolina in cold weather (possibly until late this upcoming week) was done by gunfire. The technical term for this is domestic terrorism.

The best Hunter Biden email is the one where Tucker Carlson asks Hunter to help get his kid into college

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/

Gah, I just can't watch these cooking shows Mrs. Volts is always watching. Too emotionally bruising.